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Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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